The court held in this German case, the law which limited the carry over of statutory annual leave to a period of nine months after the expiry of the relevant holiday year, was incompatible with the WTD.

Once you understand the impact, in terms of additional drivers and vehicle requirements, you can start to look at ways of reducing the additional resources you will need once the WTD legislation is introduced.

Northumberland's Chief Fire Officer Brian Hesler branded the fresh WTD as a "disaster waiting to happen", and warned that replacing retained staff with full-time firefighters would hike annual costs from around pounds 10m to over pounds 20m.

Official WTD celebrations in the Maldives will include a High-Level Think Tank bringing together public and private tourism stakeholders and water experts to devise policies and strategies aimed at ensuring the tourism sector contributes to protecting water resources.

In his official WTD message, UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, said: Many in the tourism industry have already shown leadership in developing and deploying clean energy solutions, cutting energy consumption and carbon emissions in some regions by up to 40 per cent through initiatives such as the Hotel Energy Solutions toolkit.

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